? creating coloured Ansi images

Hi!

Is there any way to create good-looking colour Ansi images from existing
bitmap files automagically?
I'd like to convert a pic into data that can be displayed on an Ansi
compatible terminal. Netpbm only creates "traditional" "black-and-white"
ascii-art.

It'd be cool if someone could give me a hint.

Greetinx,

  Gunter Ohrner

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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 15:15:53 +0100, Gunter Ohrner
<G.O...@post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

>Is there any way to create good-looking colour Ansi images from existing
>bitmap files automagically?

Well yes, there sure is. Try my program png2ansi available at
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~wheany/

>I'd like to convert a pic into data that can be displayed on an Ansi
>compatible terminal. Netpbm only creates "traditional" "black-and-white"
>ascii-art.

Png2ansi uses (only) 8-bit chars. Is that a problem?

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>Subject: ? creating coloured Ansi images
>From: Gunter Ohrner G.O...@post.rwth-aachen.de 
>Date: 1/13/00 9:15 AM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <387...@post.rwth-aachen.de>
>
>Hi!
>
>Is there any way to create good-looking colour Ansi images from existing
>bitmap files automagically?
>I'd like to convert a pic into data that can be displayed on an Ansi
>compatible terminal. Netpbm only creates "traditional" "black-and-white"
>ascii-art.
>
>It'd be cool if someone could give me a hint.

     I have a program called POSTER.EXE, freeware, if you want it I could send
it to you because I don't know of any place that has it on-line. Maybe it's on
CompuServe because that's the last known address of the author.
     It converts whole pictures or windowed selections of pictures to color
ANSI, formats it converts are (ICO, GIF, BMP and PCX).
     Please reply via email quoting this message if you want it because I might
not see it here for a while.

ObASCII:

.-------------------------.
|`.                       |A
|  `.       /\         *  |M
|    `.     ||            |C
|      `. Sssssss      *  |:
|        `|||             |9
|          ``ss.       *  |8
|  *           `b         |
|        `s.__.s'         |
|  *      *_||_*`.        |
|           ||    `.      |
|  *         |      `.    |
|            *        `.  |
|                       `.|
`...                   ...'
    ``````.......''''''

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>Subject: ? creating coloured Ansi images
>From: Gunter Ohrner G.O...@post.rwth-aachen.de 
>Date: 1/13/00 9:15 AM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <387...@post.rwth-aachen.de>
>
>Hi!
>
>Is there any way to create good-looking colour Ansi images from existing
>bitmap files automagically?
>I'd like to convert a pic into data that can be displayed on an Ansi
>compatible terminal. Netpbm only creates "traditional" "black-and-white"
>ascii-art.
>
>It'd be cool if someone could give me a hint.

     Poster12.zip converts ICO GIF PCX and BMP link I just found:

http://ftp.vse.cz/pub/msdos/SAC/pc/utiltext/
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